According to our analysis we are moving slowly in the right direction on the way to
gender balance in local politics. During the last 20-30 years we have witnessed a positive
development. The representation of women has ...

The report studies events that took place between May 2005, when the Norwegian
parlament decided to reform the Norwegian welfare administration, and June 2006,
when the new state agency called NAV was established. The ...

This paper focuses on administrative competence in the Norwegian central government and its relationship to administrative reforms. Four different types of competence are addressed: Fachkompetenz, policy advice skills, ...

This paper is based on an in-depth study of the Norwegian Food Safety Authority’s
management of the E.coli crisis in the spring of 2006. The study examines crisis
management from sense making through decision making to ...

This report is from the final product of an evaluation of organisational conditions within
the family counselling offices, which Bufetat (Norwegian Department for Children,
Youth and Family Affairs) Region Vest ordered ...